Patents Assigned to Fujitsu General Limited
  • Patent number: 11384760
    Abstract: A lower end plate includes: bolt holes through which bolts penetrate; a lower discharge valve; a lower discharge-valve accommodating recessed portion into which the lower discharge valve is accommodated; and a lower discharge-chamber recessed portion. A lower end plate cover is provided with a bulging portion. A lower end-plate cover chamber is formed by the lower discharge-valve accommodating recessed portion, the lower discharge-chamber recessed portion, and the bulging portion. Refrigerant passage holes include main refrigerant passage holes provided on the lower discharge-chamber recessed portion, and sub-refrigerant passage holes provided between the bolt hole and the lower discharge-valve accommodating recessed portion away from the lower discharge-valve accommodating recessed portion. The bulging portion is, in a cross section orthogonal to a rotating shaft, formed so as to overlap with at least a part of each of the main refrigerant passage holes and the sub-refrigerant passage holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: FUJITSU GENERAL LIMITED
    Inventors: Akira Inoue, Kenshi Ueda, Shingo Yahaba, Yasuyuki Izumi
  • Patent number: 11371506
    Abstract: In a vertical cylindrical hermetically sealed container, a rotary compressor includes a motor unit and a compression unit below the motor unit. The compression unit includes a shaft having an eccentric portion, a piston shaped to fit into the eccentric portion, a flat plate-shaped vane pressed against an outer circumferential surface of the piston, and a cylinder that accommodates the piston and the vane and forms a suction chamber and a compression chamber. The rotary compressor stores, in the hermetically sealed container, lubricating oil of which amount causes immersion of a part of the compression unit. The rotary compressor has a hollow portion on a lower end side of the shaft, and has an oil supply diagonal hole that is inclined with respect to a rotation axis of the shaft and causes the hollow portion and an upper end of the eccentric portion to communicate with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: FUJITSU GENERAL LIMITED
    Inventors: Shuhei Hoshino, Naoya Morozumi
  • Publication number: 20220196335
    Abstract: A heat exchanger includes flat tubes, a header to which the flat tubes are connected, an inflow plate that separates a refrigerant inflow portion and a lower circulation portion, a vertical dividing plate that separates the lower circulation portion and an upper circulation portion, a lower dividing plate that divides the lower circulation portion into a lower ascent path on an internal side and a lower descent path of an external side, and an upper dividing plate that divides the upper circulation portion into an upper ascent path on a leeward side, and an upper descent path on a windward side, wherein the inflow plate includes an ejection hole on a leeward side and an internal side, and the vertical dividing plate includes a first passing port on a leeward side and an internal side, and a second passing port on a windward external side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: FUJITSU GENERAL LIMITED
    Inventors: Masatoshi WATANABE, Yoshinari MAEMA, Ryo TAKAOKA, Kotaro OKA
  • Publication number: 20220155029
    Abstract: A heat exchanger includes: a plurality of flat tubes; a fin in which a plurality of notches are arranged side by side in a vertical direction, the fin having a plurality of intermediate portions and a connecting portion connecting the intermediate portions to each other; and a first bulging portion having an upper end edge and a lower end edge provided between a first notch and a second notch, the upper end edge being positioned in the intermediate portion and the lower end edge being positioned in the connecting portion. The upper end edge has a first upper end positioned on an intermediate portion side, and a second upper end positioned on a connecting portion side, the first upper end being positioned to be higher than the second upper end, or the first upper end being positioned at the same height as the second upper end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Applicant: FUJITSU GENERAL LIMITED
    Inventors: Daiki SHIMANO, Masatoshi WATANABE, Yoshinari MAEMA, Ryo TAKAOKA, Shohei NAKATA, Kotaro OKA
  • Patent number: 11333149
    Abstract: A recessed part is provided in a position, in which an upper vane and a lower vane slide, in an outer peripheral part of an intermediate partition plate in a rotary compressor. Double of eccentric amounts in an upper eccentric part and a lower eccentric part of a rotating shaft is 30% or more of entire lengths in a sliding direction of the upper vane and the lower vane respectively. A width W of the recessed part in a circumferential direction of the intermediate partition plate is larger than a thickness T of each of the upper vane and the lower vane. When a depth of the recessed part is D and an entire length of each of the upper vane and the lower vane is L, D?0.1×L . . . Expression 1 is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: FUJITSU GENERAL LIMITED
    Inventors: Akira Inoue, Junya Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20220146165
    Abstract: An outdoor unit control unit includes a degree-of-dryness calculating unit that calculates the degree of dryness of a refrigerant flowing into an heat exchanger (an indoor heat exchanger at the time of a cooling operation, and an outdoor heat exchanger at the time of a heating operation) disposed on the downstream side of a liquid pipe, and performs an inhibition mode of inhibiting, when the degree of dryness exceeds a threshold A, control that is performed in the direction of decreasing the degree of opening of the expansion valve (an indoor expansion valve at the time of the cooling operation, and an outdoor expansion valve at the time of the heating operation) disposed on the upstream side of the liquid pipe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicant: FUJITSU GENERAL LIMITED
    Inventors: Yu HIROSAKI, Tokihiko ANDO, Shintaro SANADA, Koya AOKI, Tatsuro YAMAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20220140687
    Abstract: A motor includes: a rotor, a stator; and a cylindrical insulator fixed to an end portion of the stator. The stator includes a plurality of teeth, a plurality of winding wires each including a winding portion wound around each of the plurality of teeth, a neutral wire provided on one end side of the winding portion, and a power wire provided on the other end side of the winding portion, and a neutral point at which a plurality of neutral wires are electrically connected via a connecting member. The insulator is provided with a drawing notch penetrating from an outer side to an inner side of the insulator. The plurality of neutral wires are routed along an outer peripheral surface of the insulator, pass through the drawing notch, and are drawn from the outer side to the inner side of the insulator, and the plurality of neutral wires drawn are fixed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Applicant: FUJITSU GENERAL LIMITED
    Inventor: Tomooki HASEGAWA
  • Publication number: 20220128319
    Abstract: A heat exchanger (5) comprises: a plurality of flat tubes that are stacked in a direction perpendicular to a refrigerant flow direction, and a plurality of fins (111) that have a first flat tube among the plurality of flat tubes, a second flat tube adjacent to the first flat tube, a first flat tube insertion portion (113A) into which the first flat tube is inserted, and a second flat tube insertion portion (113B) into which the second flat tube is inserted. A first fin (111) has, formed on the inner periphery of the first flat tube insertion portion (113A), a cut and raised piece (114) for spacing a fin pitch (P) between the first fin (111) and an adjacent second fin (111). The cut and raised piece (114) has a raised portion of the same length as the fin pitch (P), and a folded portion that is folded back at the tip of the raised portion and that is in contact with the second fin (111).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: FUJITSU GENERAL LIMITED
    Inventors: Daiki SHIMANO, Ryo TAKAOKA, Masatoshi WATANABE, Yoshinari MAEMA, Shohei NAKATA, Kotaro OKA
  • Patent number: 11313377
    Abstract: A first opening, which passes through the blade surface part from a negative pressure side toward a positive pressure side, is provided between the first blade element and the second blade element on the blade surface part. A space between an outer edge of the first blade element extended from the side surface toward an outer edge side of the blade, and an outer edge of the second blade element extended from the side surface toward the outer edge side of the blade on the positive pressure surface side, is opened from the side surface in a radial direction of the blade surface part, so that an air current coming from the negative pressure side toward the positive pressure side through the first opening, flows from the first opening toward the outer edge side of the blade along the positive pressure surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: FUJITSU GENERAL LIMITED
    Inventors: Hirotaka Sawada, Kazuya Funada
  • Patent number: 11313382
    Abstract: On the blade surface part, a first opening passing through the blade surface part from a negative pressure side toward a positive pressure side is provided between the first blade element and the second blade element. A chord length of the first blade element along a direction connecting the apex A with the point B, is equal to or larger than a chord length of the second blade element along a direction connecting an apex C with a point D.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: FUJITSU GENERAL LIMITED
    Inventors: Hirotaka Sawada, Kazuya Funada
  • Publication number: 20220120451
    Abstract: An air conditioner includes a heat exchanger that is arranged in a ventilation flue inside a housing, wherein the heat exchanger includes a plurality of flat tubes, and a fin that includes a plurality of notch portions arranged side by side in a vertical direction, to which the plurality of flat tubes are inserted, and includes intermediate regions each formed between two of the notch portions adjacent to each other in a vertical direction, and a connection region connecting the intermediate regions to each other, first bulging portions that are at least partly positioned on the intermediate regions, and a second bulging portion that overlaps with a gap generated between the first bulging portions and the flat tubes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Applicant: FUJITSU GENERAL LIMITED
    Inventors: Daiki SHIMANO, Masatoshi WATANABE, Yoshinari MAEMA, Ryo TAKAOKA, Shohei NAKATA, Kotaro OKA
  • Publication number: 20220113048
    Abstract: An air conditioning system includes an air conditioner and an adapter that connects the air conditioner and an external server device. The adapter includes a first updating unit and a second updating unit. The first updating unit updates, when a new learning model that provides a recommended operation to a control unit included in the air conditioner is received from the external server device, the learning model by using a first update method. The second updating unit updates, when an update purpose control program that updates a control program for the air conditioner is received from the external server device, the update purpose control program by using a second update method that is different from the first update method. It is possible to reduce an adapter load by updating the learning model and the control program by using different methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Applicant: FUJITSU GENERAL LIMITED
    Inventors: Tomofumi KAWAI, Yutaka SHIMAMURA, Masae KITAJIMA, Koichi KITAMI
  • Patent number: 11293647
    Abstract: The amount of refrigerant to be charged in a refrigerant circuit of an air conditioner is set to a range defined by a lower-limit charge amount and an upper-limit charge amount. The lower-limit charge amount is a charge amount with which a refrigerant supercooling degree is 0 deg and a refrigerant quality is 0 at a refrigerant outlet side of a supercooling heat exchanger when a cooling operation is performed under an overload condition in which the refrigerant is hardly condensed in an outdoor heat exchanger that functions as a condenser. On the other hand, the upper-limit charge amount is a charge amount with which a refrigerant supercooling degree is 0 deg and a refrigerant quality is 0 at a refrigerant outlet side of the outdoor heat exchanger when the cooling operation is performed under a rated condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: FUJITSU GENERAL LIMITED
    Inventors: Shintaro Sanada, Shunji Itakura, Yu Hirosaki
  • Patent number: 11293452
    Abstract: An inner peripheral blade projects from the positive pressure surface of the blade surface part toward a positive pressure side, includes a front edge in a rotation direction of the inner peripheral blade that is formed in a curved shape to be separated from a reference line toward the front edge side in the rotation direction of the blade, the reference line connecting a lower end positioned on the positive pressure surface at a base end of the inner peripheral blade connected to the side surface of the hub with an outer edge of the inner peripheral blade that is extended from the side surface toward an outer edge side of the blade and positioned on the positive pressure surface, and satisfies H/L?0.1, where L is a length of the reference line and H is a maximum value of a distance between the reference line and the front edge of the inner peripheral blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: FUJITSU GENERAL LIMITED
    Inventors: Hirotaka Sawada, Kazuya Funada
  • Publication number: 20220082282
    Abstract: A service proposal period adjusting device is connected to an air conditioner and a service base location terminal that is installed in a service base location and that provides a service to the air conditioner, the service proposal period adjusting device includes an operation state collecting unit that collects an operation state signal from the air conditioner, a candidate date and time calculating unit that decides a plurality of pieces of candidate date and time based on the operation state signal, a sending unit that sends a cleaning recommendation signal based on the plurality of pieces of candidate date and time to a communication terminal, and a requesting unit that sends request date and time selected by the communication terminal from among the plurality of pieces of candidate date and time to the service base location terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Applicant: FUJITSU GENERAL LIMITED
    Inventor: Jyunya ISHIZAKI
  • Patent number: 11255564
    Abstract: Provided is a program update system for an air conditioner, which can complete update of a program without delay. A controller 51 determines whether it is summer or winter. If it is summer or winter, the controller 51 updates a communication program 52a to a downloaded update program. Or, the controller 51 determines whether a user has set timer on/off. If the user has set the timer on/off, the controller 51 updates the communication program 52a to the downloaded update program. Or, the controller 51 captures room temperature Ti and set temperature Tp, and determines whether a temperature difference ?T calculated using the captured room temperature Ti and the set temperature Tp is greater than or equal to a threshold temperature difference Tth. If the temperature difference ?T is greater than or equal to the threshold temperature difference Tth, the controller 51 updates the communication program 52a to the downloaded update program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: FUJITSU GENERAL LIMITED
    Inventor: Yutaka Shimamura
  • Patent number: 11255570
    Abstract: A ceiling-embedded air conditioner includes: a box-shaped housing that is embedded in a ceiling of an air-conditioned room; a square decorative panel that is attached to a lower surface of the housing and covers the ceiling; main body outlets that are provided along respective four sides of a bottom surface of the housing and blow heat-exchanged air; outlets that are provided in the decorative panel in correspondence with the main body outlets; corner blowoff units that are provided in the decorative panel in correspondence with coupling portions for coupling the outlets; a blowoff path that is circumferentially provided in the decorative panel in correspondence with the outlets and the corner blowoff units; and wind direction plates that are rotatably provided along the respective sides of the decorative panel so as to cover or open the blowoff path and are longer than a long side of the outlets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: FUJITSU GENERAL LIMITED
    Inventors: Naoto Fujita, Yuta Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20220045569
    Abstract: A motor includes a rotor, and a stator that generates a magnetic field to rotate the rotor. The stator includes a plurality of teeth, a plurality of winding wires including a winding portion wound around each of the plurality of teeth, a neutral wire provided on one end side of the winding portion, and a power wire provided on the other end side of the winding portion, and a plurality of neutral points at which a plurality of the neutral wires is electrically connected by connection terminals. The plurality of neutral wires includes a plurality of first fixation portions in which the plurality of neutral wires is fixed to each other in positions that are on a winding portion side compared to the plurality of neutral points, and a second fixation portion in which the plurality of neutral wires is fixed to each other from the plurality of first fixation portions to the plurality of neutral points.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2019
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Applicant: FUJITSU GENERAL LIMITED
    Inventor: Tomooki HASEGAWA
  • Patent number: D942283
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: FUJITSU GENERAL LIMITED
    Inventors: Hiroki Anno, Masaaki Miyata
  • Patent number: D957596
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: FUJITSU GENERAL LIMITED
    Inventor: Shogo Matsumoto